Updates and an announcement from LWN [LWN.net]

Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 5, 2012 17:12 UTC (Thu) by jmnovak (subscriber, #48627)
In reply to: Updates and an announcement from LWN by karim
Parent article: Updates and an announcement from LWN

Note that some of us are willing to pay money to *not* have the JavaScript; not out of nostalgia, but because of concern regarding the security of any dynamic content. Same applies to the 'tweet', '+1' buttons, etc. The minimalist design of the site with lots of useful and interesting information is what keeps me coming back and paying my subscription. In contrast, I've dropped other sites that started substituting glitter for content...

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Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 5, 2012 19:12 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

Sure. But the article clearly states the need to expand readership. Those who are already in are great, but a business is going up or down, and right now it looks like LWN isn't going up. Appeal to a broader market is needed.

Updates and an announcement from LWN

Posted Jul 6, 2012 10:24 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

The question the OP asks is: will having social buttons (unless carefully crafted, non-privacy-threatening, possibly two-clicks-needed) gather a wider audience or just empty the current (and really loyal [*]) audience? Can you win readers by having these features FASTER than you'll lose readers? Are new, socialized readers as well prepared to the high-quality content as the old, antisocialized ones?

Mind you, I have a small LWN-prepared audience on twitter and G+ and I would like a simple way to share with them some of the articles and the discussions I have here. And I think some of them could change into subscribers also. But I would only opt in for a simplified sharing (simpler than right-click on [Link] link, copy link, change tabs, middle-click?) if I could do it without pesky track-all-I-read cookies.